Famous Deaths on 12th September

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Deaths 1 - 118 of 118

352 - Maximinus van Trier, bishop of Trier/saint, dies
413 - Marcellinus of Carthage, Christian saint
1012 - Guido van Anderlecht, Flemish pilgrim/saint, dies
1015 - Lambert I with the Beard, Count of Leuven, dies in battle at about 65
1185 - Andronicus I Comnenus, Byzantine emperor (1183-85), lynched
1213 - Pedro II, [el Catolico], king of Aragon, dies in battle
1362 - Innocent VI, [Etienne Aubert], Pope (1352-62), dies
1369 - Blanche of Lancaster, wife of John of Gaunt (b. 1345)
1500 - Albrecht III van Saxon-Meisen, duke of Saxon, dies at 57
1591 - Richard Grenville, vice-admiral (Roanoke) dies in battle at 49
1604 - Louis Gunther, earl of Nassau, dies in battle at about 29
1612 - Tsar Vasili IV of Russia (b. 1552)
1642 - Cinq Mars, French plotter, executed
1647 - Joos Banckert, Swiss admiral (Spanish silver fleet), dies at 48
1660 - Jacob Cats, [Father Cats], pension advisor of Holland, dies at 82
1661 - Jacobus de la Torra, RC apostole vicar of Holland, dies at about 53
1665 - Jean Bolland, Flemish Jesuit writer (b. 1596)
1672 - Tanneguy Lefebvre, French classical scholar (b. 1615)
1674 - Claes P "Nicolas" Tulip, mayor of Amsterdam, dies at 80
1683 - Afonso VI, mentally ill king of Portugal (1656-67), dies at 40
1691 - Johann Georg III, Elector of Saxony (1680-91), dies at 44
1695 - Jacob Abendana, Spanish scholar (b. 1630)
1732 - Eugene JP earl the Merode, Belgian marquis of Westerloo, dies at 58
1733 - Francois Couperin "Le Grand", French composer, dies at 64
1739 - Reinhard Keiser, Germ conductor/composer (Markus-Passion), dies at 65
1764 - Jean Philippe Rameau, French composer (Castor en Pollux), dies at 80
1779 - Richard Grenville-Temple, 2nd Earl Temple, English politician (b. 1711)
1789 - Franz Xaver Richter, composer, dies at 79
1806 - Christian Gottfried Thomas, composer, dies at 58
1807 - Edward Miller, composer, dies at 71
1812 - Pyotr I Bagration, Georgian/Russian ruler/general, dies in battle
1815 - Jose Mauricio, composer, dies at 63
1819 - Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, Prussian general (b. 1742)
1824 - Louis AG baron de Bacler d'Albe, French cartographer, dies at 62
1836 - Grabbe, writer, dies at 34
1870 - Fitz Hugh Ludlow, American author (b. 1836)
1871 - Karl Collan, Finnish composer, dies at 43
1874 - François Guizot, French historian and statesman (b. 1787)
1877 - Julius Reitz, composer, dies at 64
1878 - Friedrich August von Alberti, geologist (Triasic Age), dies at 83
1879 - Peter Arnold Heise, composer, dies at 49
1912 - Pierre-Hector Cardinal Coullie, Cardinal-Archbishop of Lyon
1913 - Major R B Stewart, cricketer (scored 4 & 9 in S Afr's 1st Test), dies
1917 - Eric Lundie, cricketer (WWI Test South Africa v England 1914), dies
1918 - George Reid, fourth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1845)
1919 - Leonid N Andrejev, Russ journalist/writer (Seven Hangs), dies at 48
1923 - Jules Violle, French physicist and inventor (b. 1841)
1927 - Walther Amelung, German archaeologist, dies at 61
1927 - Sarah Frances Whiting, American physicist and astronomer (b. 1847)
1929 - Rainis, Latvian poet and playwright (b. 1865)
1934 - Catherine Kunstantino Breshkovsky, mother of Russian revolution, dies
1936 - Hermann Hirt, German linguist (Indo-European Grammar), dies at 70
1947 - Harry Rowe Shelley, composer, dies at 89
1953 - Frederick Kuys, cricketer (one Test South Africa v England 1898), dies
1953 - Lewis Stone, actor (Prisoner of Zenda), dies of heart attack at 73
1953 - Hugo Schmeisser, German weapons designer (b. 1884)
1955 - Gustave Vanzype, Belgian literary (La Gazette), dies at 86
1956 - Hans Carossa, German writer (b. 1878)
1956 - Sándor Graf Festetics, Hungarian politician (b. 1882)
1961 - Carl Hermann, German physicist (b. 1898)
1963 - Ben Sealey, cricketer (one Test WI v England 1933), dies
1963 - Mervyn A Ellison, British astronomer (spectrohelioscope), dies at 63
1968 - Tommy Armour, Scottish golfer (b. 1894)
1971 - Lin Piau, Chinese minister of Defense, dies at 63
1972 - William Boyd, cowboy (Hopalong Cassidy), dies at 77
1973 - Eduard Flipse, Dutch conductor/composer, dies at 77
1973 - Marjorie Post, US philanthropic/multi-millionaire ($200m), dies at 86
1977 - Robert Lowell, US poet/pacifist (Near the Ocean), dies at 60)
1977 - Steven Biko, South African black student leader, dies in police custody
1978 - Frank Ferguson, actor (Wagons West, Dynamite, My Gal Sal), dies at 69
1979 - Denis Smith, cricketer (England left-handed batsman 1935), dies
1980 - Lillian Randolph, actress (Roots, Amos n Andy), dies at 65
1981 - Eugenio Montale, Italian poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1896)
1982 - Kommer Kleijn, Dutch actor/director (Paul Vlaanderen), dies at 89
1986 - Frank Nelson, actor (Ralph-I Love Lucy, Jack Benny Show), dies at 75
1986 - Jacques-Henri Lartigue, French photographer, dies at 92
1987 - John Qualen, actor (Patch of Blue, Jungle Book), dies
1988 - Alan Bible, (Sen-D-Nev, 1954-74), dies at 78
1988 - Lauris Morstad, NATO commander/CEO Corning Fiberglass, dies at 71
1989 - Anton Lubowski, Namibian attorney/SWAPO, murdered at 37
1990 - Athene Seyler, actress (Make Mine Mink), dies at 101
1991 - Jacques Benoit, [JJM Bayer], poet, dies
1991 - Regis Toomey, actor (You're in the Army Now, Burke's Law), dies at 93
1992 - Anthony Perkins, actor (Psycho), dies from AIDs at 60
1992 - Ed Peck, actor (Zoot Suit, Bullitt), dies of heart attack at 75
1992 - Ruth Nelson, actress (Awakenings, 3 Women), dies at 87
1993 - Charles Lamont, actor/director (Abbott & Costello movies), dies at 95
1993 - Harold Innocent, actor (Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves), dies at 60
1993 - Herman Nieland, organist/pianist/composer, dies at 82
1993 - Raymond Burr, actor (Perry Mason), dies of liver cancer at 76
1994 - Boris B Yegorov, Russian doctor/cosmonaut (Voskhod I), dies at 56
1994 - Douglas MacKenzie Davey, psychometrist, dies at 72
1994 - Major Bill Smith, record producer, dies at 72
1994 - Tom Ewell, [S Yewell Tompkins], US actor (7 Year Itch), dies at 85
1995 - Geoffrey Stokes, rock & roll writer, dies at 55
1995 - Jeremy Brett, [Peter Huggins], English actor (Sherlock Holmes), dies at 61
1995 - John Stuart-Jervis, balloonist, dies
1995 - Lawrence Bernard "Larry" Gales, bassist, dies at 59
1996 - Ernesto Geisel, milt president of Brazil (1974-79), dies at 89
1996 - Geoffrey Bryan Bentley, moral theologian, dies at 87
1996 - George Patrick Reid, schoolkeeper, dies at 59
1996 - James Gulliver, businessman, dies at 66
1996 - Lloyd Turner, journalist, dies at 57
1996 - Oscar Michael Moore, journalist, dies at 36
1996 - Richard Maling Barrer, chemist, dies at 86
1997 - Janet Leach, potter, dies at 79
1997 - Judith Merril [Grossman], science fiction writer, dies at 74
1997 - Stikkan Stig Anderson, music entrepreneur (Polar), dies at 66
2000 - Stanley Turrentine, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1934)
2001 - Victor Wong, Chinese-American actor (b. 1927)
Country Singer Johnny Cash (2003) 2003 - Johnny Cash, American singer and guitarist (b. 1932)
2008 - Bob Quinn, Australian rules footballer (b. 1915)
2008 - David Foster Wallace, American author and essayist (b. 1962)
2009 - Norman Borlaug, American agronomist (b. 1914)
2009 - Willy Ronis, French photographer (b. 1910)
2010 - Claude Chabrol, French film director and screenwriter (b. 1930)
2010 - Giulio Zignoli, Italian footballer (b. 1946)
2011 - Alexander Galimov, Russian ice hockey player (b. 1985)